Broncos Roster, Signings and Rumours Discussion 2023

[Galah]

Every time you name a team, I find myself thanking God you don't have anything to do with selecting our team

 

[theshed]

I felt Riki always looked more promising when he played in the middle before establishing himself in the NRL.as a second row. It’s a simpler game too and he has poor game awareness. Make him a bench middle for shorter stints to come on make use of his leg speed.

 

[Cult]

More just a super relaxed kinda bloke. No aspirations within the game because he's achieved his dream. This is already huge for him. Has a bit of the Andrew Walkers about him in the sense that he could just head home if he can't be bothered.

This is proving to be very true at the moment

 

[Mum-the-meatloaf]

Lot of chat about second row and
in particular Riki.

I'm not looking for flair from the second row. Just consistency and smart footy ala Liam Martin, Hudson Young even Wade Graham.

Just someone who can run a line, be a good decoy or feed to ball to Staggs/Walsh - hell maybe a cut out to Cobbo.

 

[Johnny92]

Selwyns podcast has provided the reasoning why Herbie has no friends In the team.. the team was woken at 2am on the army camp and had to do a 15 min drill but the drill turned into 3 hours because Herbie kept back chatting the Sargents

 

[broncos4life]

Selwyns podcast has provided the reasoning why Herbie has no friends In the team.. the team was woken at 2am on the army camp and had to do a 15 min drill but the drill turned into 3 hours because Herbie kept back chatting the Sargents

The more I learn about our team the more I think having no friends in it says something really positive about you.

 

[BroncosFever]

Lot of chat about second row and
in particular Riki.

I'm not looking for flair from the second row. Just consistency and smart footy ala Liam Martin, Hudson Young even Wade Graham.

Just someone who can run a line, be a good decoy or feed to ball to Staggs/Walsh - hell maybe a cut out to Cobbo.

We need him to become a hitman in defense, I am not bothered what line he is running if he can't tackle

 

[McHunt]

The more I learn about our team the more I think having no friends in it says something really positive about you.

Shortlisted for comment of the year. And we're only two weeks in.

 

[McHunt]

Round 1.. I'd go...

1. Walsh
2. Oates
3. Farnworth
4. Mariner / Hoeter / Arthars
5. Cobbo / Pereira
6. Mam
7. Reynolds
8. Haas
9. Smoothy
10. Flegler
11. Capewell
12. Staggs
13. Carrigan
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14. Paix
15. Riki
16. Jensen
17. Willison

18. Bayliss
19. Piakura

Happy to drop Riki from the bench for Bayliss or Piakura

I wanna keep Mariner long term but would be happy if Hoeter slotted in short term.. and I want Staggs to focus more on his running game and involvement. Hence that move.

I think Smoothy is probably our best bet at 9 to start the year, just is the most complete player we have in the hooker position..

No Billy. Hooray. Staggs to second row. Hmm. Everything else by numbers. Interesting left field mind experiment - I like it - but obviously no chance of it ever happening.

Given we have such a glut of centres and dearth of dummy halves, in my mind experiment I have Kotoni coming off the bench to relieve the not-Billy at hooker (pick anyone else). Herbie to switch sides. And Mariner to come in. He is exactly what we need, hands on every ball, injected into the attack close to the line. Again, will never happen. But he would thrive in that role.

 

[McHunt]

Lot of chat about second row and
in particular Riki.

I'm not looking for flair from the second row. Just consistency and smart footy ala Liam Martin, Hudson Young even Wade Graham.

Just someone who can run a line, be a good decoy or feed to ball to Staggs/Walsh - hell maybe a cut out to Cobbo.

I'm looking for this from second row:

 

[upthebroncs]

Every time you name a team, I find myself thanking God you don't have anything to do with selecting our team

And what's your issue with it? Most of the line up picks itself. I only switched Riki to bench prop and Staggs to backrow. Smoothy is definitely the best option to start round 1 at 9 but that doesn't mean he will. I'm not sure what else you could have a problem with

 

[upthebroncs]

Selwyns podcast has provided the reasoning why Herbie has no friends In the team.. the team was woken at 2am on the army camp and had to do a 15 min drill but the drill turned into 3 hours because Herbie kept back chatting the Sargents

what the heck. that sounds bad

 

[upthebroncs]

No Billy. Hooray. Staggs to second row. Hmm. Everything else by numbers. Interesting left field mind experiment - I like it - but obviously no chance of it ever happening.

Given we have such a glut of centres and dearth of dummy halves, in my mind experiment I have Kotoni coming off the bench to relieve the not-Billy at hooker (pick anyone else). Herbie to switch sides. And Mariner to come in. He is exactly what we need, hands on every ball, injected into the attack close to the line. Again, will never happen. But he would thrive in that role.

Oh yeah definitely no chance of it happening.. Unless we desperately want to keep Mariner. Maybe Herbie leaves to play fullback elsewhere and Mariner gets a start there in the centres next year.. Not sure.

I just can't watch another year of that same right edge bombing opportunities. Reynolds and Cobbo were the only ones being productive there. Pretty sure Reynolds started kicking it to Cobbo and doing cut out balls just to bypass Riki and Staggs

 

[Jedhead]

Ideally Herbie stays and becomes a mainstay at centre and is able to fill in at FB when required. He's done the hard yards to get where he is, I'd hate to see another club benefit from all that hard work and development. Most of it has been off his own back but without a spot in our team none of it would have been possible so I'm sure DD and Ikin will be working furiously to keep him in the fold.

 

[McHunt]

Oh yeah definitely no chance of it happening.. Unless we desperately want to keep Mariner. Maybe Herbie leaves to play fullback elsewhere and Mariner gets a start there in the centres next year.. Not sure.

I just can't watch another year of that same right edge bombing opportunities. Reynolds and Cobbo were the only ones being productive there. Pretty sure Reynolds started kicking it to Cobbo and doing cut out balls just to bypass Riki and Staggs

I don't think kicking to Cobbo was a slight on Staggs and Riki. It's a classic Broncos' play. Classic rugby league play, I guess.

 

[upthebroncs]

Lot of chat about second row and
in particular Riki.

I'm not looking for flair from the second row. Just consistency and smart footy ala Liam Martin, Hudson Young even Wade Graham.

Just someone who can run a line, be a good decoy or feed to ball to Staggs/Walsh - hell maybe a cut out to Cobbo.

I was thinking the same thing for that right edge but I was trying to make it work with what we currently already have.

Sign up Rhyse Martin for that right edge backrow spot. He'd form a lovely combo with Reynolds and provide much needed leadership and experience. He's a great line runner and can ball play too. This won't happen but it's what I'd like the most to happen.

 

[McHunt]

Ideally Herbie stays and becomes a mainstay at centre and is able to fill in at FB when required. He's done the hard yards to get where he is, I'd hate to see another club benefit from all that hard work and development. Most of it has been off his own back but without a spot in our team none of it would have been possible so I'm sure DD and Ikin will be working furiously to keep him in the fold.

Bringing Staggs off the bench for impact would kill a lot of birds, get all our stars on the field. Maybe not the best use of the cap, though.

 

[upthebroncs]

I don't think kicking to Cobbo was a slight on Staggs and Riki. It's a classic Broncos' play. Classic rugby league play, I guess.

I was watching fairly closely, it became more of a go to without hesitation once Riki and Staggs proved to Reynolds they were liabilities. Reynolds tried giving Staggs lots of ball early in the season and realised Staggs couldn't get it to Cobbo.